People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — DEMOTTE. [ARTICLE]

DEMOTTE.

W. O. Nelson and wife, teachers of Keener township, visited in Rensselaer Saturday and Sunday. The canning factory has shut down for wirter after doing a good business for three or four months. DeMotte carpenters are constructing a house for H. Schmidt at Kniman. Fires along the Kankakee marsh and swamp are doing a great deal of damage for Nelson Morris, in the way of burning hay. Charles Ginder is on the sick list. DeMotte must be prospering as it has Eightie Akers in its center and the surburbs cover nearly eighty acres besides. School has already commenced in the new school house northwest of town.

In the Mike Haloran vs. Blocker case the former was defeated. J. W. Douthit, state prosecutor, was in our town last week. A large portion of the male population was over at Kniman at court last Saturday. Miss Ella Hanley, the primary teacher of this place, was visiting in Chicago Saturday and Sunday. M. M. Tyler, the deputy prosecutor of this place, is doing a good business as traveling salesman. People of this vicinity have been troubled by a few days of terribly windy weather. W. W. Cheever says that he will have his house finished by next Fourth of July if he has good luck and plenty of it. There is a heavy crop of corn

in this vicinity and husking has begun. There was a few Nubbin Ridgers present at the Fred Heislebring dance Saturday night. Potato digging is a main feature of farming at present in this township. Stormy Petrel.